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SORAYA   0

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am a us citizen my fiance is from venezuela living in spain with an expired visa..i want her to come to the us cause is to hard for me to travel back and forth.we are marrying soon iin spain. but we wanna live together like every couples dream.

what are the steps to take? any one help...it will be gladly appreciated..

Aztec&Taino Proficient

Aztec&Taino   144

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am a us citizen my fiance is from venezuela living in spain with an expired visa..i want her to come to the us cause is to hard for me to travel back and forth.we are marrying soon iin spain. but we wanna live together like every couples dream.

what are the steps to take? any one help...it will be gladly appreciated..

Read the "Guides" -which can be found at the top of the page- to inform yourself of the two different immigration paths that would be available for you and your fiancee. You basically have two paths: to petition for your fiancee (Fiance(e) visa, also known as K1) in order to get married in the USA. Or, if you want to marry her in Spain, you could do that and then petition for her as your spouse by filing the I-130. Either way, you are looking at a process that could take from 7 months to 1 year or more to complete.

Best wishes!

August 23, 2010 - I-129 F package sent via USPS priority mail with delivery confirmation.

August 30, 2010 - Per Department of Homeland Security (DHS) e-mail, petition received and routed to California Service Center for processing. Check cashed. I-797C Notice of Action by mail (NOA 1) - Received date 08/25/2010. Notice date 08/27/2010.

After 150 days of imposed anxious patience...

January 24, 2011 - Per USCIS website, petition approved and notice mailed.

January 31, 2011 - Approval receipt notice (NOA 2) received by mail. Called NVC, given Santo Domingo case number, and informed that petition was sent same day to consulate.

Called Visa Specialist at the Department of State every day for a case update. Informed of interview date on February, 16 2011. Informed that packet was mailed to fiance on February, 15 2011.

February 21, 2011 - Fiance has not yet received packet. Called 1-877-804-5402 (Visa Information Center of the United States Embassy) to request a duplicate packet in person pick-up at the US consulate in Santo Domingo. Packet can be picked-up by fiance on 02/28.

March 1, 2011 - Medical exam completed at Consultorios de Visa in Santo Domingo.

March 9, 2011 at 6 AM - Interview, approved!

March 18, 2011 - POE together. JFK and O'Hare airports. Legal wedding: May 16, 2011.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

-Henry David Thoreau

Inky Grand Master

Inky   1,111

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Filed: Citizen (apr) Country: Canada
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Because you are going to marry in Spain you cannot file a K-1 petition because you will be married. You need to file a spousal visa CR-1.

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Your I-129f was approved in 5 days from your NOA1 date.

Your interview took 67 days from your I-129F NOA1 date.

AOS was approved in 2 months and 8 days without interview.

ROC was approved in 3 months and 2 days without interview.

I am a Citizen of the United States of America. 04/16/13

SunDrop Proficient

SunDrop   59

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Filed: Citizen (apr) Country: United Kingdom
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Hmmm, if she's in Spain with an expired visa, does that not mean her presence there is illegal?

Look into what she needs to do in order to obtain a police certificate, because I think I remember reading another member describing it being very difficult getting it when they were in Spain illegally.

Please do your research and ideally contact a US-experienced immigration attorney for advice, so you are not marrying and spending large amounts of money filing for visas in the hope of her getting there quickly, only to discover her Spanish visa overstay is going to hold you back.

I hope I'm wrong, and someone with personal experience of this will chime in to correct me :)

Good luck!

Timeline Summary:

K-1/K-2 NOA1 - POE: 9 February - 9 July 2010

Married: 17 July 2010

AOS mailed - Interview : 22 November 2010 - 10 March 2011

ROC mailed - approved: 14 February - 18 June 2013

Citizenship mailed - ceremony: 9 February - 7 June 2017

 

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Minya's wife Experienced

Minya's wife   25

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Filed: Lift. Cond. (apr) Country: Hungary
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If she is living in Spain on an expired visa, she may not be able to avail herself to interviewing (for whatever visa it ends up being, whether a fiancee K-1 or spousal K-3/IR-1) at the US consulate in Spain. She may have to renew her residency in Spain, or return to the home country and interview there. Definitely something that needs to be researched before any us petition is filed as you would have to list on that the country where the eventual visa interview will take place. It can be more problematic to change 'venue' (so to speak) in mid processing. Good luck.

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